July 29 Update

Wayne Gretzky said:
it is a Intamin Suspended Catapult Coaster with the height of 165'. The name will indeed be Maverick.

How does you know it is a Intamin Suspended Catapult coaster? Is you a genius or does you gots a insider connection? It will be 165 feet tall? You must have a lots of genius to know all these informations already.

Also, I always thought Maverick was a fighter pilot...maybe Maverick was trademarked for the Top Gun ride at PKI. Yep, just goes to show it doesn't take much to think up and post a totally rediculous idea.

Grizzeg, how did you find the patent for Maverick? I tried searching the website for other rollercoasters but I got really confused.

G$$$ said:
Also, I always thought Maverick was a fighter pilot...maybe Maverick was trademarked for the Top Gun ride at PKI. Yep, just goes to show it doesn't take much to think up and post a totally rediculous idea.

Nice thought, but why would they trademark a ride name for a ride at a park that they didn't even know whether or not they would acquire yet?

Prisilica309 said:
Grizzeg, how did you find the patent for Maverick? I tried searching the website for other rollercoasters but I got really confused.

Go to google, search "tess" then go down to "trademarks" then at the top right is a link that says "Use Trademark Electronic Business Center", click on that, then click search at the top, then click "Browse Dictionary (View Indexes)" and then search away lol. That's how I found out about Griffon at BGE. ;)

I wouldn't mind if a portion of this ride was backwards....

It pretty much looks like we're going to have to wait until August or so to find out anything that we can actually know for sure...

I also found the trademark for TTD. We can use this as an example to look at the one for Maverick. They're almost the same except all of the dates are in this one.

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=doc&state=2fr3so.4.8
*** Edited 7/31/2006 4:21:49 AM UTC by Prisilica309***

http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?i=4632

This Track piece has exactly as much twist to it as the pieces in wicked twister do. right around a 90* twist in the length of the track. Should make for an amazing element!

http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?i=1296

Purdue University Engineer said:
Come on Ben, if you're going to "Hooray!" about something in that picture, at least make it for the transfer track locking cylinder mounts ;)

Yeah, I wasn't sure what they were for, honestly. I figured a 'dynamic' piece of track obviously, but I didn't know if it was for a transfer track or for a dual loading station or what.

Jason, you are definitely getting better at the Midway Vision pictures. They're freaking awesome. :)

The Midway Vision pictures are really good this time. I can't believe you got the whole entire section of track and supports!

If you go to rcdb.com and look at the construction pictures of colussus at thorpe park, those supports are the same ones used for the "heartline roll" i believe its called.

with all this talkin about Aqua Trax, im thinkin it might. Also with the talk of it being a lim launch which an aqua trax is. hmm Atleast august is here or a day away. I wanna go back to cp so bad.

Wayne Gretzky said:
it is a Intamin Suspended Catapult Coaster with the height of 165'. The name will indeed be Maverick.

Thanks for clearing that up, "Great One".
*** Edited 7/31/2006 11:34:44 AM UTC by djDaemon***

Does anyone know what this funky track could be?

http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?a=499

someone might have cleared this up saying something like a transfer track, but looking at the recent update, there seems to be more of this "swiss cheese" track face down in the grass. It doesn't make sense to me to have several pieces just for a transfer track.

http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?i=4630

Are there any other roller coasters with the swiss cheese track?
*** Edited 7/31/2006 12:28:53 PM UTC by Baseball_Coaster_Freak***

Yes. Wicked Twister has this track (see pic in July 26th Update thread, page 7). It's used for LIM's.

here's another pic that shows what you were talking about. http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?i=1277

It definitely looks that way but why would there be a slight curvature to the track, if it were an lim? Has that been done before?

Perhaps the launch will be on a slight incline, and the piece in question is simply at the apex of the launch.

Or, as e x i t has mentioned, perhaps there is some sort of launch lift hill being used on this ride.

Prisilica309 said:
The Midway Vision pictures are really good this time. I can't believe you got the whole entire section of track and supports!

I'm glad you like them. I'm reading up a little more on the capabilities of my camera to try and make the light balance better on the other ones.

TThrillD420 said:

grizzeg said:
A Maverick is a wild horse..

This is from dictionary.com: mav-er-ick

1. An unbranded range animal, especially a calf that has become separated from its mother, traditionally considered the property of the first person who brands it.
2. One that refuses to abide by the dictates of or resists adherence to a group; a dissenter.

Just so we're done with that = )
*** Edited 7/31/2006 2:19:45 AM UTC by TThrillD420***

Oh, sorry, i just somehow remembered there being a horse involved in Maverick. Well, thanks for the definition. *** Edited 7/31/2006 2:59:14 PM UTC by grizzeg***

Prisilica309 said:
Grizzeg, how did you find the patent for Maverick? I tried searching the website for other rollercoasters but I got really confused.

I had it bookmarked, but I don't remember where I had gotten the link from. Sorry! :)

pyrocoasterkid said:
What does anyone think these weird supports are for?:

http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?i=4639

http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?i=4641

I just can't figure them out and how they're going to work.... other than the obvious (holding up track) ;)

The first one you linked to will be for a heavy banked turn or possibly a type of roll depending on if there is more support to connect to it or if the track will connect directly to it. You may be looking at that piece upside down. If you think of it as a "Y" shape, then point the top of the "Y" at the ground and extend pieces of support to a footer.

As for the 2nd link, that could be for anything. The piece that's forward in the pic will have other supports attached to both sides so it's difficult to tell right now exactly where it will go or what it will be used for.